Dedicated to Kayla again for helping me write this story again :D
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter series. Actually, I own multiple copies, but I didn't create it... JKR did (Duh!)
Hermione's POV
After she and Draco went separate ways, Hermione traveled to Professor Snape's classroom and was very happy at finding that he had returned from his trip.
Professor Snape was mixing a potion when she entered his potions class.
"Good Afternoon, Professor," Hermione said, giving him a smile.
"Yes... Afternoon. Are you back again for the scavenger hunt?" He asked her.
"Mhmm, I'm in need of four items that are used in potions." Hermione replied.
"And which ones would those be?" He asked, knowing the Dumbledore wouldn't have listed anything that's expensive/rare.
Hermione consulted her list, "An eagle talon, a snake skin, a badger tooth, and a lock of lion's fur." She responded.
"Alright, come in the back, but don't touch anything! The last thing I need is you growing a cat tail and ears to match after touching a mixture of cat fur and polyjuice potion." He replied, motioning toward a wooden door.
Hermione had no clue what polyjuice potion was, but followed him to the room anyways. The room she entered was twice the professor's height and it had at least a dozen shelves on each wall that were filled with jars and boxes. Some of the contents of jars were quite disturbing. There was a glass jar containing green liquid and a human ear; another had swirled purple gas that seemed to be moving toward their energies whenever they did the slightest movement. Lastly, there was a jar full of pigs feet and frogs legs mixed into a murky yellow liquid.
"Dont you dare touch that potion, it'll make your body as raw as a baby Blast-Ended Skrewt." He remarked when he saw her nearly touch the glass from amazement. The professor was standing on a small ladder with one hand reaching to the back of a shelf. He managed to pull out a box with a lion image on the front and removed a small tuft of fur from the box before placing it back in it's original spot. He moved his ladder to the neighboring wall and stood at the very top of the ladder, reaching as far as his arms could go, but he couldn't reach the jar. He was grumbling about needing a taller ladder as he kept reaching.
"Professor? Why not try conjuring it?" Hermione asked him.
His arm stopped straining and he stared at her, bewildered at his stupidity. He got off the ladder and used the "Accio" spell again; Hermione stifled a laugh at him as he said "tall ladder." He moved the ladder to where the short one had been, "Ah, that's better." He said as he easily reached the glass he wanted.
Draco's POV
"Where am I supposed to find a wand? The adults need theirs, and none of the first years have wands yet... Wait a moment, that Longbottom kid said that he likes to practice magic... That could mean he already has a wand!" I thought to myself, running off to the dorms in hopes of finding Longbottom. When I finally passed all the doors and halls in the corridor, I reached my destination. And with just to my luck, Longbutt was standing next to Millisent and thanking a teacher for his help. Neville had his back turned and I could see an object pointing out of his back pocket.
"There it is!" I thought to myself. I started to creep slowly towards him in hopes of not drawing attention to myself. When I was half way there, I ducked inside an empty room, stood in the doorway, and pointed my finger at him saying "wand" and then pointed to myself. Suddenly his wand came shooting towards me and I caught it mid-air. He didn't even notice the change of weight.
"He won't need this for now..." I thought to myself; I re-entered the room and examined the wand: it was a cylinder wand that was black except for white on both ends- this was definitely a hand-me-down. It was ancient!
I left the room and headed down the hall to go back to Professor Snape's room. Hopefully Hermione finished getting her items. I reached the room and entered without knocking.
Snape and Hermione were talking when the door opened and both turned around to see Draco. Snape disregarded him and continued sitting at his desk, working on some paper. Hermione walked over to Draco.
"Did you get the wand?" She asked him.
I nodded then said, "Yep; I did. The professor's given you the four potion ingredients?" Hermione held up the eagle talon, the badger tooth, the lion fur, and the snake's skin. "Great! Let's hurry to the Headmaster before anyone else does first."
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They speed walked (somehow the halls were charmed with a "No Running" spell) to Professor Dumbledore's office. Once they reached the gargoyle and were about to run up the already opened spiral staircase when the bearded man came down.
"Have you two finished?" He asked them.
"Yes sir," they both replied.
"Wonderful! Why don't we all go back to the pitch to wait for the others." He said. They nodded and followed him out of the castle and to the pitch.
Soon the other pairs started arriving and joined the three. Dumbledore stood up once Neville and Millisent, the last pair, arrived and spoke, "You all have been at hard work searching for the items on the list. But now it has come to an end. The winners are: Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy! I've thought long and hard on the award and have come up with a prize: you both will receive seven wishes to use on whatever you'd like." When he finished, everyone clapped politely, except for Millisent, of course. "Once you've given me all of your items, you may all go back to your dorms, except for you two." Dumbledore pointed at Hermione and Draco, "I'm going to show you both how to properly use the wishes."
When all the other students got up and went back to the castle, Dumbledore continued: "As with all magic, there are rules. When I give you the ability for your wishes, I have certain things that cannot be wished for. One: Nothing that is in any way evil can be requested. Two: You cannot wish to change yours or anyone else's age or gender. Three: No wishing for more wishes. Four: You must keep your wish positive. Five: You cannot wish to harm anyone. Six: No wishing for fame and/or money. Seven: You cannot use wishes to cheat on homework, schoolwork, et cetera. Those are the only rules, do you have any questions?" They both shook their heads. "Very well. In order to stop any accidental wishes, before your wish you need to say: 'tribuo mei votum'aloud, followed by closing your eyes and thinking hard on your wish. Some wishes can take a couple hours before they take effect. Be careful how you word your spells, though. I knew someone who asked: 'Make me a bat' and he became a baseball bat." Dumbledore and Hermione chuckled while Draco looked at them confused as to what a 'baseball' was. "I had to do the reverse spell, but he still had a couple characteristics of the bat and he couldn't get a redo on his wish." Dumbledore pointed his wand at the couple and said a spell. They glowed gold for a nanosecond and then turned back to their normal selves. "Well, I think we're done here. I'll collect your items and return them to the teachers, but could you please return Neville's wand to him, Draco? I'm sure he'd appreciate knowing who took it and where it went."
Draco nodded and the two walked back up to the castle, leaving Dumbledore at the pitch.
:D Thank You Kayla for helping me write this! (KAYLA IS AMAZING : D) - Kayla (She truely is) - Cakey
To the readers: What else do you think I should do for the story? Leave a review about your hopes for the summer camp and Kayla/I will most likely key those wishes into later chapters.
Translation of "tribuo mei votum": "Grant My Wish"
